I must have seen this film fifty times or more, I have the DVD but always watch it if on TV, which it just has been.
It's totally devoid of Hollywood glamour, unbelievable heroics or chiseled good looks. Small love interest with Virginia McKenna but not in a character that wouldn't have existed.
My father was on the North Atlantic and Russian convoys in a ship similar to Compass Rose. He was sunk on Christmas Eve 1943, the ship didn't go down immediately so they were rescued the next morning.
He always loved this film as well, saying it was very close to the real thing. Jack Hawkins excelled at the captain with Donald Sinden close behind.
One of the grittiest war films of the day and still way ahead of a lot of more recent war films, as I said in the title, its simply the best.
It's totally devoid of Hollywood glamour, unbelievable heroics or chiseled good looks. Small love interest with Virginia McKenna but not in a character that wouldn't have existed.
My father was on the North Atlantic and Russian convoys in a ship similar to Compass Rose. He was sunk on Christmas Eve 1943, the ship didn't go down immediately so they were rescued the next morning.
He always loved this film as well, saying it was very close to the real thing. Jack Hawkins excelled at the captain with Donald Sinden close behind.
One of the grittiest war films of the day and still way ahead of a lot of more recent war films, as I said in the title, its simply the best.